Monday, December 2, 2002

The Chameleon and the Certificate of Authenticity We noted on the 1st that the Certificate of Authenticity can include additional information. As the World Printmakers put it, you can include notes about technique, thoughts on art, your biography, anything you "might deem relevant to the print." It "will enhance your client's experience of your work." This allows for all kinds of levels of meaning, information, or data to be formally associated to the piece. Some of this could dramatically change the piece's meaning. For example, the notes on a simple portrait show it to be a tool of revolution. The Untitled Fine Art Print lists this web site in the Addtional Information area. This can lead to any number of, possibly changing, meanings. Instead of a static meaning, the meaning would change over time, perhaps encorporating its own history (if accessed in an archive, or understood from its present meaning) or taking on and throwing off one meaning after another. I suppose as long as the piece can up hold the reference, either figuratively, or conceptually, the meanings would be considered sound. And perhaps the piece could fluctuate from being Great Art to merely a novelty. On Dec 1st (A Day with(out) Art) The Fine Art Print Untitled included a sense of absence. On Dec 2nd, the Fine Art Print Untitled is to be thought of as an intellectual graphics arts designer's secret P'shop Tennis serve . 11:20:50 PM